Pair charged with molestation of woman's daughter

FORT LAUDERDALE — Emails read by a Fort Lauderdale woman's estranged husband led to charges of child molestation for the woman and her ex-boyfriend.

Shad Campbell, 42, of Fort Lauderdale, is accused by Fort Lauderdale police of showering with his former girlfriend's 6-year-old daughter and engaging in mutual cleansing of their genitals with a loofah, according to an arrest report.

Campbell was arrested Jan. 31 and charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim less than 12 years old.

The girl's mother, 33, of Fort Lauderdale, was arrested Feb. 12 and charged with the same offense.

The Sun Sentinel does not identify alleged victims of sexual abuse and to protect the child's privacy, is not identifying the mother.

Campbell and the mother are being held without bond. Campbell declined representation by the Broward County public defender.

In December, the child's father was helping the mother with her resume. He saw emails between his estranged wife and her former boyfriend, who once lived with the woman and child, that described inappropriate physical contact between Campbell and the girl, police said.

Those emails, from May 2012, prompted the father to file a complaint, according to police.

In a statement to police, the mother denied knowledge of messages between herself and her ex-boyfriend about his penis being touched by the child.

Campbell denied to investigators that the victim ever washed his penis in the shower and told an investigator that the emails were about him teaching the child sexual awareness. He said the child touched his penis once and that he knew it was wrong, according to the police report.